Healthier Banana Bread

Ingredients (1 regular loaf)

Dry Ingredients:
10 oz unbleached all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground ginger
1/16 teaspoon grated nutmeg

Wet Ingredients:
1 whole egg, at room temperature
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 oz unsalted butter (1/2 stick), at room temperature
4 oz plain yogurt
6 oz demerara (or turbinado) sugar
1/2 teaspoon Maldon salt, ground after measuring
8 oz ripe bananas, peeled, and mashed with a fork

Extras:
2.5 - 5 oz toasted walnut pieces

(or blueberries)

Directions:

Sift the flour into a medium bowl, add all other Dry Ingredients, whisk together and set aside.

In a separate bowl, cream the butter, oil, salt and sugar until light and fluffy. Whisk in the egg, yogurt, vanilla extract until incorporated. Whisk in the mashed bananas.

Add Wet Ingredients to the Dry Ingredients and fold with silicon spatula until just incorporated, being careful not to over-mix. Fold in the Extras.

Lightly coat a loaf pan (9 x 5 x 3") with grapeseed oil. Transfer the batter to the prepared pans.

Bake for 70 minutes (or until lightly browned) at 350 F. Turn the bread out of the pan and let cool completely on a cutting board or rack. Wrap in foil.